Welcome to Zero = abundance, an online resource where you can get inspiration to live, work and deliver values/services to customers leveraging the power of “less,” not “more.” You may be amazed to find out how our assumption- we need to deliver “more” to make yourself and others happy – is actually wrong. Resilient and sustainable happiness starts from “less,” because Zero is abundance.

A life with “less” is simple, but not plain. Find out how abundance can fill the void once occupied by materials and “stuff.”

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In today’s rapidly changing world, nothing seems as predictable as it used to be. What will our “living” look like in such an environment? Sustainable architecture may call for new values such as small, agile, mobile and temporary. (Photo: Open house with condensed core by Shigeru Ban)

Although “circular economy” sounds like a novel concept, out society was actually already circular 300 years ago. It celebrates people and people’s power to design, which sat at the center of the circular economy. Back then, design was “open” to anyone involved.

“Zero” used in “Zero = abundance” is our inherent capacity to let beauty and satisfaction emerge from less, or nothingness. It’s what Buddhism has been pursuing for thousands of years, and what Zen crystallized in various forms of art. Find profound power of Zero.

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Zero = abundance is an online forum to explore the potential of "less is more," so as we can design happier life, happier business and happier society by leveraging beauty emerging from "less." Zero = abundance draws core inspirations from Zen-inspired Japanese aesthetics.

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